Fire safety / Ingmar Sogaard and Hans Krogh, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Søgaard , Ingmar.

Krogh, Hans.

Series:

Safety and risk in society series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fire prevention.

Fire protection engineering.

Fires.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume discusses the first aim of fire safety - to provide the safety of occupants, and to avoid and/or reduce the number of fatalities (and/or the number of injuries). A broad overview of the current state-of-the-art of fires in atria is also discussed.

Contents:

Intro

FIRE SAFETY

CONTENTS

PREFACE

SMOKE AND FIRE DYNAMICS IN ATRIA AND LARGE ENCLOSURES: AN OVERVIEW

ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTION

2. ATRIUM DEFINITION

3. ATRIUM TYPOLOGY

4. ATRIUM FIRE DYNAMICS AND SAFETY PROBLEMS

5. FIRE STRATEGIES AND DESIGN

6. COMPUTER MODELLING

7. SPRINKLERS AND SMOKE DETECTORS

8. THE PROCESS OF SMOKE FILLING

9. NATURAL VENTING OF SMOKE

10. MECHANICAL VENTING OF SMOKE

11. SPILL PLUME DYNAMICS

12. CURRENT DESIGN TRENDS IN FIRE SAFETY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

A BRIEF REVIEW ON APPLYING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS IN BUILDING FIRE HAZARD ASSESSMENT

2. LITERATURE REVIEW

3. TURBULENCE MODEL

Reynolds Averaging of Navier-Stokes Equation (RANS)

Large Eddy Simulation (LES)

4. DISCRETIZATION OF THE CONSERVATION EQUATIONS: FINITE VOLUME METHOD

5. VELOCITY-PRESSURE LINKED EQUATIONS

6. COMBUSTION AND MODELLING OF THE HEAT RELEASED

7. THE FIRE DYNAMICS SIMULATOR

8. VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION

9. APPLICATION TO FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING

10. AN EXAMPLE

11. FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS

12. FREE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

13. CONCLUSIONS

SIMPLIFIED ASSESSMENT OF PROTECTIVE MEASURES TO PREVENT FIRE ESCALATION INVOLVING PRESSURIZED VESSELS

NOMENCLATURE

2. FIREBALL AND BLEVE HAZARD FOR PRESSURIZED VESSELS

3. ESTIMATION OF DOMINO ESCALATION PROBABILITY

4. ESTIMATION OF VESSEL TIME TO FAILURE

4.1. Modeling Approach to Time to Failure Calculation

4.2. The Lumped Model

4.3. THE FINITE ELEMENT MODEL (FEM)

4.3. LUMPED MODEL VALIDATION

4.4. SIMPLIFIED CORRELATIONS FOR TTF ESTIMATION

5. ESCALATION THRESHOLDS AND ESCALATION PROBABILITY

5.1. Assessment of Escalation Thresholds and Probabilities

5.2. Effect of Passive Protection Systems.

6. CONCLUSIONS

7. REFERENCES

FIRE SAFETY OF OLDER CHINESE MIGRANTS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

INTRODUCTION

METHODS

Recruitment Procedure

Instrument

Statistical Analysis

RESULTS

DISCUSSION

THE USE OF EGRESS/PEDESTRIAN SIMULATION MODELS AS TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS TO PROVIDE THE SAFETY OF OCCUPANTS UNDER EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

1. INTRODUCTION - THE USE OF EGRESS/PEDESTRIAN MODELS

2. BRIEF DISCUSSION ON FIRE SAFETY CODES

3. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SOME EGRESS/PEDESTRIAN MODELS

3.1. SIMULEX [9]

3.2. STEPS [10]

4. EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PERFORMANCE-BASED CODES AND ITS IMPACT ON THE USE AND DEVELOPMENT OF EGRESS/PEDESTRIAN MODELS

5. REFERENCES

FIRE DURING TRANSFER OF LPG FROM THE ROAD TANKER TO HORTON SPHERE - RUPTURE OF THE HOSE ATTACHED TO THE MANIFOLD

THE INCIDENCE

TRANSFER THROUGH LPG COMPRESSOR

TANK TRUCK UNLOADING OPERATIONS

Preparation within Plant

PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN TRANSFER OPERATIONS

LESSON LEARNED

CONCLUSION

FIRE ACCIDENT AT A REFINERY IN INDIA: THE CAUSES AND THE LESSON LEARNT

THE EVENT

IMMEDIATE CAUSE

CONSEQUENCES OF THE INCIDENT

EMERGENCY MEASURES TAKEN

RECOMMENDATIONS

CONCLUSIONS

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61122-321-0

OCLC:

923659205